A Green 400 Exclusive Update:
Millions of Americans, Canadians and Europeans get sick from eating food that inspectors say are safe. A special report in the November 2012 issue of Bloomberg Markets explored those dangers.
Trying to find records on any of the fisheries in China is near to impossible because there are no records, and if found…. very few records have details of daily activities to prove food safety.
“We are trying to meet international standards,”says a Chinese fisherman Ngoc Sinh.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Buckley, says her company has no records of auditing for Ngoc Sinh.
Would you eat a fish that came from this picture below?
Polluted Fish Farm in China
At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China, Chen feeds fish with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese.That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety.
“The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella,” says Doyle, who has studied food borne diseases in China.
On a sweltering, overcast day in August, the smell of animal feces is overpowering, Chen age 45, wades barefoot into his murky ponds that have several thousand dead fish laying upside down in the water to open a pipe so that fresh water from a nearby canal can appear to make the water look healthy to the exporters that come to his farm to sell the fish to U.S. companies.
We all know how greedy the U.S. companies are, they will buy up the live and dead fish and re-sell it to turn a profit.
FUQING, China — Here in southern China of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and over-crowded with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West including Europe, Canada and the U.S.
Green 400 Magazine asks: The U.S. has more than enough room to grow and harvest fish, so why infect our nation with food from other countries that are contaminated and dangerous?
China~Choking on Growth
This information comes from the eighth in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis.
Contamination Threatens Seafood Industry
Fuqing is No. 1 on a list for refused seafood shipments from China.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed their country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States, Europe and Canada.
AGAIN!! The U.S. has more than enough room to grow and harvest fresh and uncontaminated fish, so why infect our nation with food from other countries that are contaminated and dangerous?
Answer: GREED, for it is cheaper to have fish farms in China then it is to have them in the U.S.
No matter what the dangers are to the American people, the only thing that matters to corporations in the U.S. is the almighty dollar, and as Bill Gates says we need to depopulate the world anyway, so lets keep buying contaminated foods for the 99% of the population from filthy countries, the sooner they get sick and die the better for us 1%.
Watch this video of the people (snakes) who control your food supply, this is Wall St, Corporate America, New York, New York.
The title of this video is:
Mike Myers visits Occupy Wall Street & one of the most upsetting comments.
Human growth and over population is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging waste water that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
In this upcoming video, it will show you the consumer, a frightening, alarming and dangerous reality that lies behind the bright and perky displays at your local grocery store.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
Foreign importers are worried, in recent years the European Union and Japan have imposed temporary bans on Chinese seafood because of illegal drug residues and carcinogenic preservation in keeping fish fresh.
Carcinogen’s are the fumes from a car’s exhaust. If your local grocery store sells hybrid sushi please read the labels….most of them are just soaked in carcinogens to keep the color in the seafood and will tell you so on the label. It will say the word carcinogens.
Hybrid Grocery Store Sushi
Carcinogens are also used to preserve sushi. Watch your labels and ask your sushi chef how his seafood is preserved.
Usually the seafood chef will say…”fresh very fresh”, but that does not answer the question. The question is, how do you preserve your seafood? They probably won’t answer you or act like they don’t understand..then if this happens …just leave.
Regulators in countries are struggling to keep contaminated seafood out of the market. China has shut down seafood companies accused of violating the law and blacklisted others, while United States regulators are concentrating on Chinese seafood for special inspections, but most of the seafood gets through inspections to the supermarket to your plate.
China’s Fisheries Polluted With Dangerous Chemicals
By comparison, Thailand, also a major exporter of seafood to the United States, had only two refusals related to illegal veterinary drugs. China as a whole had 210 refusals for illegal drugs. READ YOUR LABELS it will say from CHINA!
“For 50 years,” said Wang Wu, a professor at Shanghai Fisheries University, “we’ve blindly emphasized economic growth. The only pursuit has been G.D.P., and now we can see that the water turns dirty and the seafood gets more and more dangerous.
Every year, there are food safety and environmental pollution accidents.”
Environmental problems plaguing seafood would appear to be a bad omen for the industry, but with fish stocks in the oceans are steadily declining, the global demand for seafood soaring, farmed seafood, or aquaculture is the future.
No country sells more seafood than China, which produced about 115 billion pounds of seafood last year.
China produces about 70 percent of the farmed fish in the world, harvested at thousands of giant factory-style farms that extend along the entire eastern seaboard of the country. Farmers mass-produce seafood just offshore, but mostly on land, and in lakes, ponds, rivers and reservoirs, or in huge rectangular fish ponds dug into the earth.
“China will be a major supplier not just to the U.S., but to the world,” said Richard Stavis, the chairman of Stavis Seafoods.
China started gaining power as a seafood power in the 1990s as rapid economic growth became the top priority in the country. But environmental experts say that headlong pursuit of higher gross domestic product has devastated Chinese water quality and endangered the country’s food supply. In Guangdong Province in southern China, fish contaminated with toxic chemicals like DDT are already creating health problems.
“There are heavy metals, mercury and flame retardants in fish samples we’ve tested,” said Ming Hung Wong, a professor of biology at Hong Kong Baptist University. “We’ve got to stop the pollutants entering the food system.”
More than half of the rivers in China are too polluted to serve as a source of drinking water. The biggest lakes in the country regularly succumb to harmful algal blooms. Seafood producers are part of the problem, environmental experts say. Enormous aquaculture farms concentrate fish waste, pesticides and veterinary drugs in their ponds and discharge the contaminated water into rivers, streams and coastal areas, often with no treatment.
China’s Waters Contaminated By Green 400 Magazine
“Water is the biggest problem in China,” said Peter Leedham, the business manager at Sino Analytica, an independent food safety testing firm that works with companies that buy from China. “But my feeling is China will deal with it, because it has to. It just won’t be a quick process.”
In the meantime please be careful and watch all your labels on all your food supplies, you just never know what to expect anymore from our local supermarkets..The new trend is to go directly to the farmer nearest you to get your food supplies. Stay safe and be careful….
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